Burnley General Teaching Hospital’s brand new £15.6 million Fairhurst Building will welcome its first patients on Monday 14 October.
Patients with an appointment for the Orthodontic, Maxillofacial Surgery and General Outpatient clinics at Burnley General will be seen in the state-of-the-art Fairhurst Building in Area 4, Level 1 starting 14 October.
Currently these clinic appointments are carried out in the hospital’s much older Area 1.
“We can’t wait to move into the Fairhurst Building which offers some of the finest hospital facilities in the region,” says Outpatients Manager, Sister Andrea Cottam. “The Fairhurst Building definitely provides far superior clinical and patient areas and we look forward to seeing our first patients.”
Completion of the Fairhurst Building is the latest milestone of a £60 million development programme at Burnley General which began in 2003 and demonstrates East Lancashire Hospitals’ long term commitment to delivering truly integrated, high quality treatment and care across East Lancashire.
In the last three years alone, East Lancashire Hospitals has opened the Lancashire Elective Centre, Primrose Chemotherapy and Breast Care Unit, new children’s outpatients and upgraded the hospital’s theatres.
“It’s a relatively short distance from the old facilities to the Fairhurst Building so we do not expect any inconvenience for patients,” says East Lancashire Hospitals’ Divisional Director for Estates and Facilities, James Maguire. “The Fairhurst Building has much better accessibility than the older facilities and there’s extra parking right outside.”
